"After a coup, the new Guatemalan President Roberto Barrios continues his predecessor's reign of terror: a bloody campaign of torture, forced disappearances, genocide, and scorched earth warfare....At an orphanage, home to Mayan children, a caretaker has been paying monthly protection money to former Kaibiles, who also kidnapped two young women from the orphanage. An American businessman, who supports the orphanage that now lies directly in the path of the ground forces, requests Grant Stevens' assistance in evacuating its caretakers and children. Stevens agrees, but he and his men will also search for the kidnapped women."